Nas's Cyber Corner

Walk into any office server room, and you'll see a rack full of blinking boxes with cables running everywhere. Some of those boxes are routers, some are switches, and if the office is old enough, maybe a hub or two gathering dust. They all move data, but they do so in very different ways. Understanding the difference between them is something you'll need to have locked down early. Hubs — the dumbest device on the network I'm not being mean. A hub is genuinely unintelligent. I

Every device on a network needs an address. Without one, data has no idea where to go. An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a non-negotiable part of understanding how cybersecurity works. What an IP address actually is An IP address is a number assigned to every device on a network. It's how that device gets identified and located. When your computer requests a webpage, it sends that request from its IP address to the server's IP address. The server sends the page bac

Here's my debut video, starring my kitchen as the glamorous backdrop! 😄 I'm cringing just a little bit here. My main mission was to not...